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Consider the following statements with respect to ‘National Coal Index’
Select the correct statement(s)
Solution(a)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Correct | Incorrect |
| The NCI is a price index which reflects the change in the price level of coal on a particular month relative to the fixed base year. This price index combines the prices of coal from all the sales channels- Notified Prices, Auction Prices and Import Prices. The base year is FY 2017-18. | The concept and design of the Index as well as the Representative Prices have been developed by the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. |
Context – The ministry of Coal decided to annually revise the Performance Bank Guarantee (PBG) based on the National Coal Index (NCI) for April at the beginning of the year 2023.
Solution(a)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Correct | Incorrect |
| The NCI is a price index which reflects the change in the price level of coal on a particular month relative to the fixed base year. This price index combines the prices of coal from all the sales channels- Notified Prices, Auction Prices and Import Prices. The base year is FY 2017-18. | The concept and design of the Index as well as the Representative Prices have been developed by the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. |
Context – The ministry of Coal decided to annually revise the Performance Bank Guarantee (PBG) based on the National Coal Index (NCI) for April at the beginning of the year 2023.
Consider the following statements with respect to ‘United Nations Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee’
Choose the correct answer using the code given below
Solution(b)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Incorrect | Correct | Incorrect |
| It was established as the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee in 1999, after UNSC Resolution 1267 designated al-Qaeda and the Taliban as terrorist bodies. In 2011, a separate committee was formed for the Taliban. | The sanctions committee allows any UN member state to propose adding the name of a terrorist or terror group that has affiliations to Al Qaeda and ISIS to a consolidated list, maintained by the Committee. The other two committees with similar roles are The Counter-Terrorism Committee and The Security Council Committee | The listing will be adopted according to a “no-objections” procedure and if any member of the Committee objects, the listing cannot be adopted. As a permanent member of the UNSC, China can do this any number of times as its term doesn’t run out, and it carries a veto vote. The Committee is bound to resolve these issues within 6 months and at the end of this period, the holding country has to decide whether to accept the listing or place a permanent objection to it. |
Context – UNSC sanctions committee blacklists Lashkar’s Makki
Solution(b)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Incorrect | Correct | Incorrect |
| It was established as the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee in 1999, after UNSC Resolution 1267 designated al-Qaeda and the Taliban as terrorist bodies. In 2011, a separate committee was formed for the Taliban. | The sanctions committee allows any UN member state to propose adding the name of a terrorist or terror group that has affiliations to Al Qaeda and ISIS to a consolidated list, maintained by the Committee. The other two committees with similar roles are The Counter-Terrorism Committee and The Security Council Committee | The listing will be adopted according to a “no-objections” procedure and if any member of the Committee objects, the listing cannot be adopted. As a permanent member of the UNSC, China can do this any number of times as its term doesn’t run out, and it carries a veto vote. The Committee is bound to resolve these issues within 6 months and at the end of this period, the holding country has to decide whether to accept the listing or place a permanent objection to it. |
Context – UNSC sanctions committee blacklists Lashkar’s Makki
Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Subhash Chandra Bose’
Choose the correct answer using the code given below
Solution(c)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 | Statement 4 |
| Correct | Incorrect | Correct | Incorrect |
| Netaji was strongly influenced by Swami Vivekananda’s teachings and was known for his patriotic zeal as a student. He was known in particular for his militant approach to independence and his push for socialist policies. | He was the first person to call Mahatma Gandhi “Father of the Nation”, in his address from Singapore. | He earned the title ‘Netaji’, in Germany by the Indian soldiers of the Azad Hind Fauj in 1942 | Netaji was re-elected as President of INC in Tripuri. However, soon resigned from the presidency and formed the All India Forward Bloc, a faction within the Congress that aimed at consolidating the political left. |
Context – 126th birth anniversary of Netaji is going to be held on Jan 23
Solution(c)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 | Statement 4 |
| Correct | Incorrect | Correct | Incorrect |
| Netaji was strongly influenced by Swami Vivekananda’s teachings and was known for his patriotic zeal as a student. He was known in particular for his militant approach to independence and his push for socialist policies. | He was the first person to call Mahatma Gandhi “Father of the Nation”, in his address from Singapore. | He earned the title ‘Netaji’, in Germany by the Indian soldiers of the Azad Hind Fauj in 1942 | Netaji was re-elected as President of INC in Tripuri. However, soon resigned from the presidency and formed the All India Forward Bloc, a faction within the Congress that aimed at consolidating the political left. |
Context – 126th birth anniversary of Netaji is going to be held on Jan 23
With reference to ‘Advance Medical Directive/Living will’, consider the following statements
Select the INCORRECT statement(s)
Solution(d)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Correct | Correct |
| It is a document prescribing a person’s wishes regarding the medical treatment the person would want if he/she was unable to share his/her wishes or not in a position to make an informed decision by reason of being unconscious or in a coma. An adult who is of a sound and healthy mind and in a position to communicate, relate and comprehend the purpose and consequences of executing the document. | In the event that there is more than one valid Advance Directive, none of which have been revoked, the most recently signed Advance Directive will be considered as the last expression of the patient’s wishes and will be given effect to. |
Context – Constitution bench of the Supreme Court (SC) questioned the utility of executing an advanced medical directive in India when a person is anyway free to refuse invasive treatment and accept death.
Solution(d)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Correct | Correct |
| It is a document prescribing a person’s wishes regarding the medical treatment the person would want if he/she was unable to share his/her wishes or not in a position to make an informed decision by reason of being unconscious or in a coma. An adult who is of a sound and healthy mind and in a position to communicate, relate and comprehend the purpose and consequences of executing the document. | In the event that there is more than one valid Advance Directive, none of which have been revoked, the most recently signed Advance Directive will be considered as the last expression of the patient’s wishes and will be given effect to. |
Context – Constitution bench of the Supreme Court (SC) questioned the utility of executing an advanced medical directive in India when a person is anyway free to refuse invasive treatment and accept death.
‘Windfall Tax’ sometimes seen in news refers to
Solution(b)
Windfall taxes are designed to tax the profits a company derives from an external, sometimes unprecedented event— for instance, the energy price-rise as a result of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. These are profits that cannot be attributed to something the firm actively did, like an investment strategy or an expansion of business.
Context – Centre cut windfall tax on export of diesel, ATF
Solution(b)
Windfall taxes are designed to tax the profits a company derives from an external, sometimes unprecedented event— for instance, the energy price-rise as a result of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. These are profits that cannot be attributed to something the firm actively did, like an investment strategy or an expansion of business.
Context – Centre cut windfall tax on export of diesel, ATF
